Swimming appliance



May 22, 1923;

P. L. L. YORGENSEN SWIMMING APPLIANCE Filed Nw. 27, 1922 Patented May 22, i923.

STATES @NET5 PAUL L. L. YORGENSEN, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALFRED J'. GENGRAS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

SWIMMING APPLIANCE.

Application filed November 27, 1922. Serial No. 603,477.

T 0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that PAUL L. L. YoRGnNsEN, citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swimming Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a swimming-appliance and which can be readily and easily attached to members of the body of a swimmer to facilitate his passage through the water.

The device is in the nature of a practically iat plate detachably associable with a member ol the body such as a hand or hands.

In the drawing accompanying and forming part ot the present specilication, I have represented in detail a form of embodiment of the invention which to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same will be set for-th fully in the following description. Clearly I am not restricted to this disclosure. I may depart therefrom in a. number of respects within the. scope of the invention delinedby the claims Jfollowing aid description.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure lis a top plan view of the device.

Fig. 2 is an elevation as seen from the left in Figure l, the dotted lines showing the relation of the article to a hand of the user.

F ig. 3 is an elevation showing a swimmer furnished with two of the paddles, applied to his hands.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several views. v The swimming appliance is made up of two paddles as 2 and 3. For instance, in Fig. 3 I show a manner of using the same. The paddle 2 represented in Figs. l and 2 on a somewhat. larger scale than Fig. 3, is exactly like the paddle 3, so that a detailed description of the paddle 2 (Figs. 1 and 2) will apply to the paddle 3, they being virtually the same.

Said paddle 2 involves in its make-up a fan-like body such as 3 having at its reduced rear or inner end the curve or bend et which is intended to fit in the palm ot the hand at the junction of the thumb therewith, -as

shown for instance by Fig. 2. This curv- `several loops 6 of which as shown there are f'our and through which the ingers can be projected. The loops 6 are formed by a strap 7 which can be removably held in place by a buckle 8. The strap is extended through elongated parallel slots 9 as shown vbest in Fig. l, to produce the loops.

Below each loop 6 is a cavity 10,- there being as shown four of these cavities which are intended to receive the fingers 0f a hand. The cavities merge into or extend from a transverse cavity 11 near the base or inner portion of the body 3 on the rear'side thereof as shown for instance in Fig. 1.

In action, the strap 7 will be fastened by the buckle 8 after which the fingers of the hands will be laid into the channels or grooves l0 with the transverse groove 11 receiving the ball portions of the thumbs of the hand. The strapi 5 will then be projected through the loop or eye l passing around the wrist and there tied for instance in a bow. One ot each of the paddles will be applied tothe hands at which time the appliance is in readiness for use in swimming which, may be any of the strokes in vogue except that the stroke will be merely simplied and rendered easy.

What I claim is:

A swimmers appliance involving a fanshaped plate having loops to detachably receive the ingers of a user and also having channels to receive the lingers placed through the loops and also having a transverse channel to receive the hand at the junction of the lingers with the palm.

In testimony whereof I hereby aiiix my signature.

PAUL L. L. YORGENSEN. Witnesses:

ELIN C. GARDELL, HEATH SUTHERLAND. 

